A rough day this one. Rose still loves the scenery, but these little Moroccan villages we drive through all seem pretty much alike to me. The landscape is even more barren and mars like. A long day travelling, up early and on the way by 8.30am, arriving at Ouarzazate at 6.30pm.
Along the way our first stop was at a Ksir, a walled community of houses, a bit like the Medina, but with a lot less people. This is a dying community as all the young ones
are moving to the cities. Each family has a plot of land nearby, where they grow palm trees for dates and other crops as well.
Next, we turned off the main road and went up a long and winding road to a place called the gorges. Very scenic with a shallow river running through it, with big rocky cliffs high in either side. Lots of families paddling in the river.
We are sitting near the front of the bus today , so we get a good view of the road we are travelling down. A few frights along the way as the bus is wide and the road is narrow.
Our hotel is magnificent, The Berbere Palace. I would love to stay here 2 days, but this us not to be.
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